6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 18 Va. App. 840 - Woolfolk v. Commonwealth (1994), 11 Va. App. 535 - Rollston v. Commonwealth (1991)
155 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bottoson v. Florida · Stockton v. Commonwealth · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Gooden v. Commonwealth · Keesee v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When considering the sufficiency of the evidence on appeal of a criminal conviction, we must view all the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth and accord to the evidence all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom. The jury’s verdict will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“The jury's verdict will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.